Stovepipe coupling



July 3, 1923. 1,460,910

x. JUNGE STOVEPIPE COUPLING Filed Nov. 1, 1921 k v Juvenhn Patented July 3, 1923.

UNITED STATES ,xnvrnn JUNGE, or VENTURIA, NOR H DAKOTA.

STOVEPIPE COUPLING.

Application filed November 1, 1921. Serial No. 512,038.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that XAVIER JUNGE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Venturia, in the county of McIntosh and 5 State of North Dakota, has invented new and useful Improvements in Stovepipe Couplings, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and efiicient means whereby the adjoining telescoped extremities of stove pipe and similar sections may be secured against disengagement by relative longitudinal movement; and with this object in view the 1n- 15 vention consists in a construction and combination of parts of whch a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure '1 is a view of a stove pipe coupling or holding device embody ng the 1nvention applied in the operative position to a stove pipe joint, a portion of the stove pipe being broken away. 1

Figure 2 is a detailview of the coupling or holder detached but shown in the position which it occupies when applied to the pipe. 7 Figure 3 is a View of I the coupling or holder as it is constructed and appears asan article of manufacture prior to application to the stove pipe. Y j The stove pipe coupling or holder embodying the invention consists essentially of a blank or length of rod or heavy Wire '10 preferably and provided with terminal spurs 11 Sharp ened and adapted to be driven into or'engaged with punctures 12 in the walls of the stove pipe sections 13 which are connected by an overlapped or telescoping joint indi- 40 cated in Figure 1, the spurs at opposite ends of the holder or coupling respectively engaging the different jointed lengths of the stove pipe joint as to resist any tendency of the pipe sections or lengths to move away 'from each other and thus open the joint between the same. Obviously any desired number of these holders or coupling elements may be used at a joint of pipe, two being indicated in Figure 1.

As originally constructe he hql eror of spring or tempered material coupling is preferably given an arcuate'or' coiled form. asshown inFigure 3, as when applied to the joint between pipe sections -1tis straightened as shown in Figure 1 'so f as to lie substantially parallel with the pipe walls under tension so that the tendency of the holder'to resume the original ornormal position indicated in Figure 3. serves to firmly hold the spurs inengagement with the punctures in the pipe sections. The spurs are preferably inturned' or "deflected inwardly toward their extremities as clearly indlcated in Figure 2 so that the tendency of the body portion of thefdevice to assumea curved form, tends not only to firmly hold draw the pipe sections toward each'other thus become disengaged.

Having described the invention, what is claimedas new and useful is i 1. A stove pipe holder or coupling con tion with the joint betwen's'ections thereof the spurs in their engaged position but to and effectively resist any tendencyof the same to move in the opposite direction and I ly of a length of pipe in "spanningrela-Y and having its spurs engaged with'punc-"r tures in said pipe sections. 2. A stove pipe holder or sisting of a terminally spurred blank of wire coupling conor rod adapted for arrangement: longitudinally of a length-of pipe in spanning relation with the joint betweensections thereof and having its spursengaged with, un

tures in said pipe sections,said blank being of spring or resilient material and normally having an arcuate form.

3. A stov pipe'holder or coupling consisting of a terminally spurred blank of wire or;rod adapted for arrangement longitudi nally of a length ofpipe in spanning relaj-x 7 tion with the joint between sections thereof and having its spurs engaged with punc I tures in said 'plpe sections, the terminal spurs being inwardly directed towardtheir extremities.

In testimony nature,

whereof he afiixes his sigi AVIER Jones," 

